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Posted:14th Jul 2010Last night we managed a 2-person 8-ball shower. Started with one person holding all 8, showered them out to the other for a qualify and ended up with the other person catching them all.

Really liking ball passing at the moment!

Working hard to be a wandering hippie layabout. Ten years down, five to go!

Posted:16th Jul 2010I've a toss question for y'all: why does everyone say the 3b cascade is easier than the 3b shower? I've been able to do the 3b shower for years but can't do the cascade for the life of me.

Posted:16th Jul 2010Just the way you were taught I would think. The problem now would be breaking the bad habit of always doing an across throw with probably your left hand and teaching it to always throw in an upward motion to get the cascade down, so may take longer to teach/learn it than someone who has't learnt to juggle a shower pattern.

I always find it easier teaching someone the cascade if they haven't first said "Look I can juggle" and proceeded to do the common 2 ball shower, as they always struggle to remember to throw upwards under pressure to catch.

A couple of balls short of a full cascade... or maybe a few cards short of a deck... we'll see how this all fans out.

Posted:18th Jul 2010Mynci: I get them to start with their other hand in that case. Once they get used to it, stuff goes better.

eca: The cascade is easier to make slower than a shower is, so it *should* be easier to learn. I have met someone who swore blind I was wrong and a shower was easier, but he could not really hold the (shower) pattern anyway.

*shrug*

'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice."You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

Aaaaand forget about the third catch. The third catch doesn't matter. Do exactly as you do with two and just throw away the third ball. When you're super comfortable making two catches and a third throw then you can start to think about catching that third throw.

I've also been doing 423 on flats but with single spin 2's. It's quite addictive.

Oh yeah, and I learnt romeo's revenge from a youtube tutorial. It's quite nice and really easy to learn if you can already do rubenstein's. It's been soooooo long since I learnt a 3 ball pattern that has a non-descriptive name!

Posted:6th Aug 2010Got another fun three ball multiplex thing. Crossed arms, two in bottom hand facing up, one in top in claw. Throw everything up so that the three balls form a horizontal line, with both hands following along.Pick the middle ball out with your top hand, grab the ball that was in the top hand with the other from below.Drop your hands, crossing them the other way and catching the third ball in the hand that was on top, either on the way down or let it drop into it.

You can reverse this and have the two balls held on top in claw, but it is a little tricksier.

'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice."You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

Just had a little play and it will work if you have the lower (multiplex) hand in contortion position, once you grab the last ball at the end just carry on the movement round your back and you're back to the mirror of where you started. Its going in my trick-bag fo'sho!

Edit: You need to move the hand that starts in contortion back round your front as soon as you throw obviously, or you'll end up tied in a confused knot...EDITED_BY: willworkforfoodjnr (1281095280)

Working hard to be a wandering hippie layabout. Ten years down, five to go!